CLASS X. ORDER IV. 1 LYCHNIS. 673 



Habitat. -Rocks on the summit of the Clove Mountains, Scotland. 

 Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 



This species is readily distinguished from ihc following, to which it 

 is somcwliat allied by its cloven petals, the whole plant being entirely 

 free from pubescence and viscidity, and by its narrower paler green 

 leaves. 



4. L. dioi'ca, Linn. (Fig. 769.) While Campion. Flowers in 

 dichotoraous panicles, dioecious; petals white or red, deeply cloven 

 with spreading lobes; capsule opening with live valves; leaves ovate 

 lanceolate, acuminate. 



a. alba. Flowers white. 



/3. English Botany, t. 1580.— /S. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 328.— 

 /3. Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 215. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 47, — 

 L. vespertina, Sibth. 



^. rubra. (Fig. 770.) Flowers red. 



English Botany, a,, i. 1579.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 329 .« 



Hooker, British F'lora, vol. i. p. 215. — «. L. diurna, Sibth. — L. 

 si/lvestris, Hopp. — De Cand Prod. p. 1. p. 386. — Lindley, Synopsis, 

 p. 47. 



y, rosa. Flowers pale pink, often with stamens and pistils together. 



English Flora, vol. ii. p. 329. —Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 215. 



Root tapering. The whole plant of a dark or paler green, and more 

 or less clothed with soft spreading somewhat viscid hairs. Stem erect, 

 round, more or less branched and spreading, from one to two feet high, 

 mostly weak. Leaves ovate, acute, the upper narrower, becoming 

 lanceolate, soft, pliant, with a more or less waved margin, the lower 

 ones on footstalks, the upper sessile, opposite, and united at the base. 

 Inflorescence a terminal forked spreading panicle, with a solitary 

 flower from the axis of each division. Floaters white, red, or pinkish, 

 numerous. Cab/x tubular, ribbed, the limb of five lanceolate erect 

 teeth. Corolla of five petals, with a spreading limb, cleft to the middle 

 with broad or narrower more or less spreading lobes, white, red, or 

 pink, the claw as long as the calyx, crowned at the top with four 

 teeth, the two inner ones acute, the outer obtuse. Stamens and pistils 

 in separate flowers, sometimes united in the same flower. Capsule 

 ovato-conate, on a short stalk, opening at the apex with five acute 

 teeth, which are either erect or spreading, one celled, many seeded. 



Habitat. — Banks under hedges, fields and waste places ; common. 



Perennial ; flowering during the summer months. 



This is a remarkable species of Lychnis, from the circumstance of 

 its flowers being dioecious, and of diff'erent colours. In the illustra- 

 tions of these states we have represented the white flowered variety with 

 pistils only, producing capsules and seed ; and in the red a specimen 

 with stamens only, and consequently barren, sometimes, however, 

 flowers are found with both stamens and pistils. The white and red 



